"I did. It would be much more amusing if the sidelines were rather wider." He'd have been delighted to watch the push-pull between Baedal's iron-fisted rule and the chaos that bubbled beneath the surface if he'd been able to do so from his normal, detached viewpoint. As things stand, the cruorvores are too easy a scapegoat when things turn nasty. He doesn't expect the reprieve they've won to last indefinitely.

"I'm certain neither of us know any vigilantes," he adds, wry, "so we've presumably nothing at all to worry about." Har har.